• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I was beating my meat like a boxer with a speedbag to the Playboy magazines I found when I was 11. And that was well before the internet was available. Kids are gonna find something to whack/flick it to, get over it.

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        11 months ago

        Remember those mail-order catalogues? Specifically the women’s underwear section. Horny teenagers are going to find something. And they have a vivid imagination.

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      11 months ago

      I was looking at porn by 11ish, so sure. Imagine making people wait until 18 or 21.

      Do you also have issue with them watching action movies with people dying?

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          I watched Apocalypto for a school paper at age 15 (from a list of options given to me), and honestly I think some softcore porn would have been better. Some rated R stuff is fine for a kid to watch, Apocalypto definitely wasn’t.

          Also that same year I researched and did presentations on Chinese history (was a prehistorical to maybe a couple hundred years ago timeline) and at least in my research I covered things like the foot tying thing (to make feet smaller) and that didn’t prepare me for the scene in Marco Polo (I think on Netflix) where that happened (and I didn’t finish the episode or continue the series because it’s just too fucked up).

          Porn can be fucked up, some porn is definitely NSFL, but there are a lot of things that are so much worse than the average porn site.

          I wish they actually tried to “protect the children” but the politicians are very clearly not.

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      11 months ago

      I think he just meant that children are the most likely to uhhh, find a way.

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      I watched porn as a teen. Look, maybe in America you’re all puritans or whatever, but I started looking at magazines when I was 13 and then later found online porn (and hell I was LATE to the game according to my classmates). This is a reality y’all have to come to terms with. Teens watch porn.